Thesis Workshop

Authoritarian Political Economy

The impact of hydrogeological events on firms: Evidence from Italy

Research Question

Impact of hydrogeological events on firms’ survival and performance.

Literature Review

Previous literature has yielded mixed evidence:

Economies may not recover to the previous trend.
Economies may recover to the previous trend and even go faster.

Gap in current studies:

Only focus on regional or country-level outcomes while ignoring multiple and less severe events that may also have economic costs.

Data and Variables Building: Hydrogeological Events

A complete nationwide dataset of hydrogeological events (floods and landslides) with detailed and reliable spatial and temporal accuracy.

Hydrogeological Events: Geographic Distribution

Data and Variables Building: Firm-level Data

Data and Variables Building: Descriptive Statistics